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Plants4Presents sell plants online as gifts and deliver all over the UK. Our aim is always to sell interesting plants that we would like to receive ourselves. Over time our range of citrus trees, flowering plants, climbers and chilli plants has slowly expanded to include lots of other edible plants including kaffir lime leaves, lemongrass, curry leaf trees and turmeric.

Well it’s been a long week at the show and I’ve not been able to do much blogging because we’ve been so busy on the stands adding people on their lemon trees,handing out free feed and selling lots,of kaffir limes and chillies. However one of the things that really interests is what the keynote theme… Read More »

Plants that we’re showing at #RHShampton court include turmeric, ginger, cardamom, cumin, lemongrass, holy basil, curry leaf and various citrus and chilli plants. One unusual plant that will be on display will be Malabar Spinach which is a climbing plant that can be used as spinach.

I’ve written before about the strange “mainstreaming” of some organic approaches – particularly the use of predators instead of sprays and away from NPK towards farmyard manure – at least by some of the field vegetable growers.

Probably a case of the public being ahead of the political classes as per usual and the RHS being more closely in touch with its constituents than the average MP.

I first started gardening as a research student working on how plants grow. Then we bought a small holding in Shropshire for a while before we discovered computers and marketing. 20 years later we started selling plants on-line.

Expansion meant we needed premises - so we acquired a nursery with 2 acres of glasshouse and started growing organic vegetables again. By September 2008 we had our soil association certification and had started selling biological controls online.

Talking to people on farmer's markets I sense a real hunger for people to garden and produce their own food. And a real interest in local and pesticide free produce.

So we created the Intelligent Garden ito help you get the most from your garden by offering the knowledge, products and advice you need to work effectively with nature to release the intelligence in your garden.